Before becoming Associate Director for Faculty Development at UT’s Center for Teaching and Learning in 2025, Elon Lang spent 13 years as a professional track faculty member at UT Austin, achieving the rank of Associate Professor of Instruction. He taught literature, composition, rhetoric, and archival research in the Thomas Jefferson Center and Liberal Arts Honors Program. His service includes Faculty Council committees, the PTF Steering Committee, and directing the International Hoccleve Society (2011–2018). His expertise spans digital humanities, community archiving, and medieval studies, with projects like the Hoccleve Archive and CTL50.
Improving Learning, Prioritizing Student Engagement, and Enhancing Identity Formation Through Hands-on Classroom Demonstrations
Cohort
2025
Fellow(s)
This project studies the benefits of implementing tailored hands-on experimental classroom demonstrations to highlight real-world applications of concepts in lecture-based courses. The motivation for this work stems from the limited opportunities undergraduate engineering students have to visualize contemporary applications discussed in core courses as well as to develop engineering-based intuition before the junior year.
Collaborative Learning Between Designers & Developers
Cohort
2025
Fellow(s)
User experience (UX) designers in industry create design prototypes and hand them off to software developers to implement in code which is returned to the designers for feedback. Typically, designers follow an iterative cycle comprising the circle of design, prototype, and test. This cycle is repeated until the product meets the desired user experience.